Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Kilgarve (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarve (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Giants Grave
- Coordinates
- 54.05025, -8.14834
- SMR number
- RO004-009----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a shelf towards the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. The remains of a segmented gallery (dims 4m NW-SE; 2.5m NE-SW) of which the two jamb stones and some sidestones on the SW side survive of the outer chamber. A jamb stone leading to a second chamber to the NW and one sidestone on the SW side of this chamber also survive. These are situated within a rectangular grass-covered stony mound (dims 17m NW-SE; 8m-10m NE-SW; H 0.5m). (deValera and O'Nuallain 1972, 31)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).
References
de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1972 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 3, Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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